Are you hassled and tired today for pressing on in Him? Are you weary of all the distraction, non-sense, shallowness, and wasted time in the western church? Are you lonely with heart-ache for fellowship in the deepest recesses of your soul?
A.W. Tozer wrote in That Incredible Christian, page 73:
If Satan opposes the new convert he opposes still more bitterly the Christian who is pressing on toward a higher life in Christ. The Spirit-filled life is not, as many suppose, a life of peace and quiet pleasure. It is likely to be something quite the opposite.
Viewed one way it is a pilgrimage through a robber-infested forest; viewed another, it is a grim warfare with the devil. Always there is struggle, and sometimes there is a pitched battle with our own nature where the lines are so confused that it is all but impossible to locate the enemy or to tell which impulse is of the Spirit and which of the flesh…
My point here is that if we want to escape the struggle we have but to draw back and accept the currently accepted low-keyed Christian life as the normal one. That is all Satan wants. That will ground our power, stunt our growth and render us harmless to the kingdom of darkness.
Compromise will take the pressure off. Satan will not bother a man who has quit fighting. But the cost of quitting will be a life of peaceful stagnation. We sons of eternity just cannot afford such a thing.
Help us, Lord, to see You as You are…full of mercy but tabulating every thought and action for the Day of Judgment.
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Your friend and brother in fighting the good fight,
Marc
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